The women of Troy
Barker, Pat, 1943-2021
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Troy has fallen. The Greeks have won their bitter war. They can return home as victors, loaded with their spoils: their stolen gold, stolen weapons, stolen women. All they need is a good wind to lift their sails. But the wind does not come. The gods have been offended - the body of Trojan king Priam lies desecrated, unburied - and so the victors remain in limbo, camped in the shadow of the city they destroyed, pacing at the edge of an unobliging sea. And, in these empty, restless days, the hierarchies that held them together begin to fray, old feuds resurface and new suspicions fester. Amidst her squabbling captors, Briseis -- now married to Alcimus, but carrying the child of the late Achilles -- must forge alliances where she can: with young, dangerously naïve Amina, with defiant, aged Hecuba, and with wild-eyed Cassandra, the unheeded seer. And so begins the path to a kind of revenge. Briseis has survived the Trojan War, but peacetime may turn out to be even more dangerous...
Main title:
The women of Troy / Pat Barker.
Author:
Barker, Pat, 1943-, author
Imprint:
London : Hamish Hamilton, 2021.©2021
Collation:
306 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
97802414272489780241427248
Dewey class:
823.914
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
442831
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | BARK | Available |
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | BARK | Onloan - Due: 02 Oct 2024 |
| Sandringham Library | Adult Fiction - General | BARK | Onloan - Due: 15 Sep 2024 |